The visit last month comes among a series of recent steps by Arab regimes to embrace Israel.

Gabbay arrived in the UAE capital Abu Dhabi on 2 December on a commercial flight from Amman, accompanied by Portuguese-Israeli journalist Henrique Cymerman.

Cymerman was reportedly involved in the talks, which focused on Trump’s so-called peace plan and Iran.

While Gabbay is nominally the leader of the opposition to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s hard-right government, he shares many of its stridently anti-Arab views and supports Israeli colonization of the occupied West Bank.

“The same Moroccan mediator has organized several meetings between Gabbay and senior figures in the Arab world,” Israel’s Channel 10 stated.

The channel added that Gabbay met with King Abdullah of Jordan and Palestinian political analyst Hussein Agha, who managed a channel of secret talks between Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas and Netanyahu between 2012 and 2014.

“I expect the new year 2019 to be a good, safe one. And on this happy occasion I would like to tell you that I strongly support normalization with the state of Israel and opening trade with it, investing Arab capital in it and opening tourism, in particular religious tourism to the al-Aqsa mosque, the Dome of the Rock and the Church of the Holy Sepulchre,” Alsaeed tweeted.

Her tweet was celebrated by Israel’s Arabic-language propaganda Twitter account:

Security cooperation

Meanwhile, Egyptian ruler Abdulfattah al-Sisi revealed recently that Israel and Egypt have been cooperating on security in the Sinai peninsula more than ever before.

“The Air Force sometimes needs to cross to the Israeli side. And that’s why we have a wide range of coordination with the Israelis,” al-Sisi, who came to power in a 2013 military coup, said on the CBS program 60 Minutes.

Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula was occupied by Israel in 1967 but Israel later withdrew under the terms of the 1979 Egypt-Israel peace treaty.

Israel also captured the West Bank and Gaza Strip and the Syrian Golan Heights during the 1967 War and occupies them to this day.